I sec. d.C. - “---/C(AI) F(ILIUS)/LACO ISIDI” “LACONE, FIGLIO DI CAIO, A ISIDE”- Lacone, ossia spartano, è un libero ma in origine un liberto, come testimonia il cognomen greco. Iside era la più importante divinità femminile dell’antico Egitto. Riscuote molto successo anche a Roma a partire dalla visita in Italia della regina Cleopatra in epoca cesariana (I sec. a.C.). Iside, sposa e sorella di Osiride, recupera i resti del corpo dello sposo ucciso dal fratello Seth e gli ridà vita. A Concordia è stato rinvenuto anche un bronzetto che rappresenta un suo sacerdote - bronzetto definito di idoletto egizio, I-II sec. d.C. I sacerdoti avevano la testa rasata e indossavano vesti di lino. La massima carica sacerdotale era però rivestita da una donna che portava un fiore di loto sulla fronte e un cobra egiziano in bronzo al braccio.
INSCRIPTION DEDICATED TO ISIS
1st century AD “ ---/C(AI) F(ILIUS)/LACO ISIDI” “LACONE, SON OF CAIO, TO ISIS” – Lacone, i.e. Spartan, is a now free man, but originally he was a freedman, as can be seen from his Greek cognomen. Isis was the main female deity in ancient Egypt. Since Queen Cleopatra’s visit during the caesarean era (1st century BC), Isis had been widely worshipped in Rome as well. Isis, wife and sister of Osiris, recovers the corpse of her husband after his brother Seth had killed him and brings him back to life. In Concordia a bronze statuette was also discovered, representing one of her priests – bronze statuette described as a small Egyptian idol (1st-2nd century AD). The priests had bold heads and wore line cloths. However, the highest priestly office was held by a woman who bore a lotus flower on her forehead and a bronze Egyptian cobra around her arm.
